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I Only Need To Give Love

I am of infinite worth, I deserved to be loved by my David, my David deserved
to be loved by me.
We both had to know that, for us to have worked, not just one of us. I needed to remember that I am of infinite
worth and I deserve to be loved. David doesn't have to love me for me to know
that, I had to know that for myself. I have felt that before but not like I did
tonight, I actually had chills from it.

I was reading a blog by a young woman that is a daughter of my very good friend
from church which is titled Laura plus Jeremy: Our Little Life Together.
I was so moved by her honesty and openness about how she felt inadequate but
that she had been touched by a very inspiring talk by one of our church members
who talked about how we just needed to love Heavenly Father, love ourselves and
don't compare ourselves to others. We are all deserving of infinite love, all
the things we pick apart about ourselves is to keep us from remembering that
Heavenly Father loves us, we should love ourselves and we should stop wondering
if or why someone has it better or worse than us.

Which only causes us to forget that we all deserve better and we shouldn't let
the things we play in our head over and over, that somehow we are not good
enough, for reasons we come up with where we think we don't deserve to be
loved and from things we have been told throughout our lives by other people we know or have known.

I have not heard affirming affirmations most of my life... I have usually heard degrading things. Well as an adult I know they are not true but whenever I allow my mind to
dwell on those thoughts, I am not allowing myself to see that I do deserve
infinite love. Just like we all do... Laura's blog so inspired me. I am
seeing things from a different point of view, it is like I have done a one
hundred and eighty degree turn.

I wanted, or rather I needed to write this tonight because I know the day may
come that I will have a bad day where I allow my thoughts to dwell in those inadequate
feelings, I wanted this written blog post to remind me that they are not
true. They cannot be real if I don't give them part of my mind to dwell
in... I am not even sure I can convey how much of an amazing feeling I had
understanding this concept.

I am going to talk about something that I don't normally talk about because I
do not like to come of as preachy. I believe we all have the right to
believe what we believe and that we should be respected for our beliefs.
I don't judge other people and I love all people, no matter what religion they
are.

So when I read Laura's blog, I really felt the truth that Heavenly Father loves
me, Jesus Christ loves me, I don't have to be perfect for Him to love me, I
just have to be working at being a better me, a more loving and a nonjudgmental
me. I think I have come a long way in that department and for this I am
grateful.

I am hoping I didn't come of too preachy because that is just not how I live my
life, I am grateful for my knowledge and I believe strongly in my Faith but
that doesn't mean I would profess to tell another how to live. It is not
my place to judge another, it is only my place to love.

22 comments
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Sigh. Yes, one of the most difficult things is learning to love yourself and to believe that you deserve to be loved for everything that you are.. and for everything that you are not. I am glad you came away on a positive in this department.

Love is never perfect, it shouldn't tear us down but build us up. I truly believe that we all deserve infinite love. On a side note. I nominated you for The Versatile Blog award. I love your introspection.

You don't sound to preachy. You just showed your worth by speaking your truth. WONDERFUL!!!Someone once said to me, that you never have to love because we are already love without having to believe. We are love and this can never be taken away. Beautiful post!!!

Thank you Suzanne for your wonderful words... I adore what you wrote about us already being love without having to believe... we are love and this can never be taken away... thank you for sharing that thought with me <3

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